Jump to content

Talk:Roof and tunnel hacking

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Every name is taken12345 (talk | contribs) at 04:50, 15 April 2007 (→Article Neutrality: Rearranged). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The picture on this page is horrendously underlit. --Crucible Guardian 02:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It is; my apologies. If anyone wants to photoshop it and relabel it as "computer-enhanced", they're welcome to. jdb ❋ (talk) 09:39, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

AFAIK, this really isn't called roof and tunnel hacking, at least, by most urban explorers. Perhaps we could rename it to a more suitable name? -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's called roof and tunnel hacking or just hacking at MIT and Wellesley; I don't know about elsewhere. There's already a more general page on urban exploration. -- xavid

Personal Hazards

Can anyone shed light on the demise of MIT alum Jack Link? ISTR his body was found under mysterious circumstances in the 1990's that may have been related to roof hacking. Assuming I recall correctly, this would be worthy of inclusion in the Roof and tunnel hacking#Personal hazards section. <>< tbc 05:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • "An unpleasant death can occur very quickly if a tunnel explorer opens a steam valve or damages a steam pipe." This is oddly worded and I am going to reword it.

Article Neutrality

My perspective may be a little skewed since I've been exposed almost exclusively to MIT hacking, but it seems like this article has a very anti-hacking slant. Granted, it may be dangerous at times, but at this school at least it's an integral part of the culture and generally looked upon positively, even by many of the faculty. One solution might be to just make separate articles for hacking at different schools. Again, I'm probably biased, but at least hacking at MIT warrants its own article just because of its unique character, the wealth of information on the subject aside. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwork:_A_History_of_Hacks_and_Pranks_at_MIT and the external links on that page. I'm not a hacker myself, so it would probably be a good idea to get an actual hacker involved in revising this. 18.34.7.106 02:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, just found that very same article. 18.202.1.74 03:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reording this article so we don't lead with the dangers. To me it read like that was the most important part so we wrote it so we led with that, but I mean, really, why would you talk about consequences before explaining what it is you are talking about? Every name is taken12345 04:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roof_and_tunnel_hacking&oldid=122918070"